Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 12:49:45 EDT
From: Wayne Glowka
Subject: dog pile
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> In eastern Kansas, where I was a kid, we always called the game of
> piling on "dog pile".
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> I always suspected kids in Kansas during the 60's were somehow
> different.
>
> Randy Roberts
> Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
> robertsr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ext.missouri.edu
My neighbors were from Kansas, and I believe that I heard them say "dog
pile" for the game of crushing people on the bottom of a pile of bodies.
Wayne Glowka
Professor of English
Georgia College
Milledgeville, GA 31061
912-453-4222
wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu